210 GRANDMOTHERS GARDEN. 



terrace gardeii, or to what comes as near to the grand- 

 mother's garden as we ought to expect to get on such a place. 

 It consists of a plat of green turf with the corners cut 

 to an octagonal line, and then a border of eight feet for the 

 regular hardy garden flowering plants, lined on the farther 

 side by clipped walls of California privet. 



On either corner of the grass plat are tall urns for 

 flowers, and still farther in are tall clusters of grasses, 

 making four keypoints of effect. One of these is made of 

 the dazzling white variegated 

 bamboo (Arundo Donax varie- 

 gata), sometimes called ribbon 

 grass, mingled with a blazing 

 spike or two of the red - hot 

 poker plant or KnipJiofia alceoides 

 (Tritoma Uvaria grandiflora ) . 

 These plants are not entirely 

 hardy, and need protection in a 

 STIPA PENNATA. cellar during winter. Another 



of these groups is made up of a tender but splendid- 

 looking grass, Gynerium argenteum, pampas grass, with 

 graceful foliage and long silvery plumes. The third 

 clump consists of the hardy Erianthus Ravennce, resembling 

 pampas grass, and growing ten or twelve feet high. Eulalia 

 Japonica, variegata and zebrina constitute the fourth and 

 best clump. They are entirely hardy and very ornamental 

 with their leaves striped and banded with white, and their 

 stalks four to six feet high, bearing curly-feathered plumes. 

 JFestuca glauca and Stipa pennata have also their places 

 as attractive grasses. 



